Because in school we just talked about Pangaea and the scientists don't even know! Will it come in our life time?
2006-12-28 08:02:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
About 250 million years in the future. Check link.
2006-12-28 08:24:25 · answer #1 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They will surely come together again. Check out something called the Wilson Cycle. It has happened throughout history. Pangaea, Rodinia before that and four or five others prior that we know of.
Right now the Pacific is closing. Thats why we have the ring of fire(ie volcanoes) all the way around the pacific. The oceanic plate is being subducted on three sides so Asia and North America are getting closer together. Spreading on the ridge in the Atlantic helps this.
It will not happen in our lifetime and I think that the general number for a completion of the Wilson Cycle is 500 million years or there abouts. So if the continents were together in the early Mesozoic we are looking at at least 100-200 million years.
2006-12-28 09:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by thorian 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it will, definitely. But the movements of the plates are so slow, just an inch or two per year (For example, The Atlantic Ocean has only widenened by about 15 yards since Colombus sailed across it in 1492) So, don't panic! The website below is very interesting, including some clever little animations showing how the continents have moved across the globe.
2006-12-28 17:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Pangaea was a thing of the past and it will not happen again.
Although, it has been said that the Atlantic Ocean is getting bigger and the Pacific Ocean is getting smaller, so Asia and North America might collide and create a North Amersia.
2006-12-28 10:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is somewhat of a coincidence that around 60 million years ago most of the continental plates were connected in Pangea. There is no reason that I know of that they will ever connect. In our lifetime the North American Plate will probably move the length of a small room so there will be no noticable change in continents
2006-12-28 08:20:57 · answer #5 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All mothers are enjoyed and celebrated immediately, yet we don't worship the advent over the author. Worship Jesus. Thank God that He gave us existence, for he's the author of existence. Gen 2:7 (7) And Jehovah God shaped guy of the airborne dirt and dust of the floor, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of existence; and guy grew to develop right into a residing soul.
2016-12-18 20:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is how it was. Not how it is going to be. It already broke apart and it is not coming back together.
2006-12-28 08:05:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol no... not in this life time
2006-12-28 08:04:52 · answer #8 · answered by Evermore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess its 15millions year
2006-12-28 08:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by Narayan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋